How To: Overlay a Pie Chart with Data... (a crude way)...
Recently there was a question from Satyam Ravada asking how to show percentages on a pie chart. With the current version, there is no option to do that. I tried to do the same thing some time back and...
View ArticleWhat If Analysis in Design Studio
When looking at certain types of dashboards or reports one of the features we come across is the ability to create What If scenario's e.g. What If the Price increased by 10%, how would this effect...
View ArticleCompilation of links: Using Design Studio with SAP HANA
Hi Everyone, here a compilation of links regarding the usage of Design Studio in combination with SAP HANA: BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1 - Setting up an SSO connection to SAP HANA to utilize in...
View ArticleSolving Problems...by Reading a Book
I couldn't see the Design Studio applications BI Mobile on the iPad. I could see Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Explorer and all the rest just fine. Then, when reading Mastering SAP...
View ArticleTrying the Second iPhone Template for BusinessObjects Design Studio
In this document Trying out Design Studio on the iPhone I tried this first template. I honestly struggled with the second template, because I wasn't sure what needed to be updated. The trick is to...
View ArticleDesign Studio 1.2: Select key figures to display on charts
With the data selection property for chart components, you can select which key figures to display in separate charts using the same data source. This minimizes duplications in connections, thereby...
View ArticleDesign Studio 1.2: What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2 has several new features to improve user interactions and facilitate application development. In this tutorial, you will review the features in this release of...
View ArticleDesign Studio 1.2: Set up display properties for a crosstab
The display properties for a crosstab enable the designer to enhance the crosstab’s appearance without the use of scripts, In this tutorial, you will activate the properties for column width, scaling...
View ArticleDS 1.2 Script Improvements
CopyFilters - ToTransfer filters on shared dimensions from one data source to another Usecase: As an application author, I would like to transfer filters on all shared dimensions from one data source...
View ArticleDS 1.2 - New Event Triggers
On Variable Initialization:Usecase:Until 1.1, the OnStartup event is fired AFTER initial variable submit. This has the effect of:submitting variables twice, if variables are set in the startup...
View ArticleDS 1.2 - Process Visualization
With the introduction of new startup process like On Variable Initialization along with On Start up and other process like On Background Processing, it needs a deeper understanding of the process flow...
View ArticleDS1.2 - Load Data in sequense - see data dropping in
Hi,Bharath Ramamurthy introduced in his Blog New Event Triggers the Application in Design Studio now supports more than the "OnStartup"-Event known in 1.0 and 1.1.With a combination of "OnStartup" and...
View ArticleDesign Studio 1.2 - a Second Look
Some more features to investigate: setVariableValue In my example above, I am setting a mandatory variable from the BEx query at startup. See where this appears in the application...
View ArticleOfficial Product Tutorials – SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
The following tutorials have been developed to help you get started using the Business Intelligence Suite products. New content is added as soon as it becomes available, so check back on a regular...
View ArticleSetting up a SDK bar chart
I will assume you have taken the steps in the developer manual here : http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/AAD12/en/ds12_dev_guide_en.pdfTo create a new SDK extension. The steps are...
View ArticleSAP Design Studio - Collapsible panels for richer user experience
Introduction: Reporting needs often require presence of multiple components in the layout along with a selector panel, but sometimes having it as a part of the layout makes it little cramped for space....
View ArticleHow to embed images inside of a Design Studio App without uploading to server.
Description:This document describes how to embed an image as standalone within your Design Studio application without uploading your image content to a web server or SAP NetWeaver MIME Repository....
View ArticleLooking at Analysis OLAP to Design Studio
I already have a BEx query with exceptions defined to highlight projects that are over budget. You can see in the above Analysis OLAP workspace that Analysis OLAP honors exceptions as "conditional...
View ArticleDesign Studio 1.2: Select key figures to display on charts
With the data selection property for chart components, you can select which key figures to display in separate charts using the same data source. This minimizes duplications in connections, thereby...
View ArticleDesign Studio 1.2: What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2 has several new features to improve user interactions and facilitate application development. In this tutorial, you will review the features in this release of...
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